Unit 2 - Homeopathic Medicine Flashcards
Where was Homeopathic medicine developed?
Germany
How long as the US practiced Homeopathy?
Early 19th Century.
What is the key premise in homeopathy that everyone has?
A vital force or self-healing response.
What does Homeopathy aim to do?
Aims to stimulate the body’s own healing responses.
What does homeopathic treatment consist of?
Involves giving extremely small doses of substances that produce characteristic symptoms of illness in healthy people when given in larger doses.
What is the approach called in Homeopathic treatment?
“Like cures like”
T/F Various explanations have been proposed as to how homeopathy works however, non of these explanations has been scientifically verified.
True.
T/F Research studies have been contradictory in their findings. Others have found positive effects from homeopathy.
True.
Where does the word Homeopathy originate?
Greek words homeo, meaning similar, and pathos, meaning suffering or disease.
What are the 3 key concepts of Homeopathy?
- Seeks to stimulate the body’s defense mechanisms and processes so as to prevent or treat illness.
- Treatment involves giving very small doses of substances called remedies that, according to homeopathy, would produce the same or similar symptoms of illness in healthy people if they were given in larger doses.
- Treatment in homeopathy is individualized (tailored to each person). Homeopathic practitioners select remedies according to a total picture of the patient, including not only
symptoms but lifestyle, emotional and mental states, and other factors.
Who in the late 1700s, a physician, chemist, and linguist in Germany, proposed a new approach to treating illness?
Samuel Hahnemann. This was at a time when the most common medical treatments were harsh, such as bloodletting,‡ purging, blistering, and the use of sulfur and mercury. At the time, there were few effective medications for treating patients, and knowledge about their effects was limited.
What was the first experiment Hahnemann performed to demonstrate Homeopathic medicine.
The first major
step reportedly was when he was translating an herbal text and read about a treatment (cinchona bark) used to cure malaria. He took some cinchona bark and observed that, as a healthy person, he
developed symptoms that were very similar to malaria symptoms. This led Hahnemann to consider that a substance may create symptoms that it can also relieve. This is the concept called similia principle or like cures like.
T/F Hahemann tested single, pure substances on himself and, in more dilute forms, on healthy
volunteers.
True.
What is potentization?
Systematically diluting a substance, with vigorous shaking at each step of dilution, makes the remedy more, not less, effective by extracting the vital essence of the substance. If dilution continues to a point where the substance’s molecules are gone, homeopathy holds that the “memory” of them—that is, the
effects they exerted on the surrounding water molecules—may still be therapeutic.
T/F A concept that treatment should be selected based upon a total picture of an individual and his symptoms, not solely upon symptoms of a disease. Homeopaths evaluate not only a person’s physical symptoms but her emotions, mental states, lifestyle, nutrition, and other aspects. In homeopathy, different people with the same symptoms may receive different homeopathic remedies.
True.
